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Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop
Also titled Stilleven met bloemen op een marmeren tafelblad
Rachel Ruysch (The Hague, 1664–1750)
1716
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 48.5 cm x width 39.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
This bouquet features more than ten species of flowers and teems with insects. As the blossoms flower at different times, it would be rather difficult to assemble such a bouquet in real life. Ruysch was well aware of this: her extensive study of live and prepared flowers allowed her to paint these vibrant bouquets with stunning precision. During her lifetime, she was one of the most celebrated painters of floral still lifes in Europe.
